Hong Kong (CNN) --China's top legislature approved resolutions to officially amend its controvertial one-child policy and end re-education through labour camps.
The Standing committee of the National Peoples Congress passed the resolutions on Saturday. The resolution is equal to a legal document in China.
The changes to the one-child policy, first announced last month, will mean couples will be allowed to have two children if one of the parents was an only child. Currently, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child.
The one-child policy, which started in the 1970s, is believed to have prevented some 400 million births.
The easing of the one-child policy is expected to go into effect in some regions in the first quarter of 2014, according to Xinhua.
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